World Cup: Argentina comeback ends England's hopes
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What happened at full-time as England were knocked out by Argentina?
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Kyllä, se on lempeä kesä nyt, kun elämänmaku on kaikista makein. Mieli kuin nuorena tyttönä kaurapellolla, kun saa liihottaa. Nauti vaan ja ota väli pala välissä. Ai ai ai, niin se on. Eloveena. Täyttä eloa.
There's the final whistle.
Argentina have beaten England by two goals to one. The England players fall to the pitch, flat on their backs, and the Argentina players drop to their knees in celebration. England were leading in the 85th minute. That's how close they were to a World Cup final for the first time for 60 years. but Argentina dug deep, and the world champions have won through, those goals from Enzo Fernandes and Lautaro Martinez, that one set up by Lionel Messi, and Messi will take Argentina, the defending champions, to New Jersey for a World Cup final against Spain and England. So near, but yet so far. England out to the defending champions, just like four years ago in Qatar. And there's a bit of nonsense now going on again on the pitch.
And I think Morgan Rodgers was involved in a bit of that. And the referee's in the middle of it as well. And the players just milling around. It's not too angry. Absolute agony for the England players. Harry Kane looks disconsolate down there. Jude Baringham too. Thomas Tuchel, the man who was taken on by the Football Association to win the World Cup, well, he's fallen short, but in the most dramatic of circumstances. And Argentina, the serial winners, have knocked England out. Paul Robinson.
They've done a job on us. They came here with a game plan in the first half, and you could see what it was to disrupt, to fly into challenges, to upset the England players, to ruffle them up. and they got to half-time, and that was half the job done. They've got the quality in Messi, I mean, he's a little magician, he really is. He's done it all tournament now, you look at the goals he's scored, you look at the balls he's put into England's box. They've done an absolute job on us, but let's be honest, they were the better side in the second half. You think of the opportunities they've had, Jordan Pickford made two outstanding saves, both posts were hit, and it was only gonna be a matter of time before they got that equaliser.
I think England went too deep too early, I think they took the attacking players off, went to a back five and thought they could sit in, and I think that was a mistake against a team with the quality of Argentina. You look at the quality they've got and the players on the pitch, to back yourself to defend for nearly 30 minutes against the world champions and not concede, it was a big ask, I think Thomas Tuchel got that wrong, he's got a lot of decisions right this World Cup, this tournament, but I do think trying to protect a lead against this team was the wrong choice. They've put in a shift in England, you can see them down there on the pitch beneath us, they're all absolutely shattered, gutted, it's heart-wrenching, it's horrible, I've been there, but that was a game that they wouldn't have wanted to lose the way that it panned out.
Another disappointment for England,
So the wait will go on for England, their dream is over. But your eyes are naturally drawn from way up here in the stands to Lionel Messi. Their dream, Argentina's dream of a second World Cup for Lionel Messi. At the grand old age of 39. is absolutely alive and Messi has gone around the England players they've been handshakes and now he's walked away and he's beckoned to his Argentine players his teammates to come with him and they're gathering around now inside the penalty area to our right and celebrating with their jubilant fans in the stands and that's it Argentina Spain it will be in New Jersey on Sunday And Messi and his teammates punching the air and dancing down on the pitch. Well, what a match it's been, what a semi-final.
We said it might be monumental, it might be a thriller, it might be a nail-biter, and it might be a rollercoaster, and it was all of those things.
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